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"Four of the chapters, in abbreviated form, have been printed in the New England magazine, and one in the critic." - Pref
I. Introductory: Signs of the dawn. The Impulse of Franklin.--II. Francis Hopkinson.--III. Philip Freneau: America's first poet.--IV. John Trumbull: satirist and scholar.--V. A group of Hartford wits.--VI. Joseph Dennie: "the lay preacher."--VII. William Dunlap: the beginning of drama.--VIII. Charles Brockden Brown.--Bibliography (p. [319]-353)--Index